Here is a quick story on how this came about.
December 2009
I’ve been a Starlet GT owner for 5 years now however, after years of driving daily driving the starlet as well as doing numerous track days in it, I felt it was time to retire the GT as a daily and turn her into the more dedicated track car.
With that in mind I set out to buy a rear wheel drive daily and back up track car. ;)
I initially started out looking for a Suzuki Cappuccino, the car I had lusted after for many years. There was 1 for sale but I couldn’t justify the ($15000!!) price tag.
2nd car in line was an mx5.
I confess, I’ve never been a long time or die hard mx5 fan like the bf had been. I'd always thought they were too girly to be honest! However (due to a dead engine in the GT) I was presented with the opportunity to drive his mx5 around for a week and I suddenly knew why everyone raved about them. The car was a bit on the slow side but DAYUM was it fun to drive!
So with that, I set about looking for my own mx5. The car had to have the following daily features:
- Power steering
- Air conditioning
- Hard top
- Good condition (low kms, well looked after)
- DEFINITELY NOT RED IN COLOUR
Without further adieu, I present you with the reddest mofo you’ve ever seen.
Whilst I'm not a fan of the colour of the car, it was the best condition one on the market (during my extensive 1 week carsales search
) so I figured it’d be silly to pass it up based on its colour. Just in case you were wondering, I wanted a white one. ;)I've dubbed these two clowns Team RoadSTARlet.
As this is the daily, plans are very modest and will include the usual: rims, coilovers and trackdays.
Why is this car called M&M? Because here it is next to the other one. How embarrassing!
Ps: I've since come to like the red haha.
